This was my 3rd visit to CSC Touch Seniors and actually I was prepared for some painting work..equipped with newspapers to make paper hats when I was informed that it was Christmas celebrations instead ...oh wells..( hint: pls add me into yahoo grps)

So the Christmas celebration started with the Bingo game and though the elderly has played this game several times..they are still ever excited about it. Haha..the aunty who won during the previous maf celebration won again for the 1st round of Bingo. She really is one lucky aunty.

The next game was a versus game whereby 2 grps of elderly threw paper sheets onto a cardboard sheet and the grp with the most paper sheets wins. In the first round, the elderly was so enthusiastic about the game..they just threw all the paper sheets they had haha =P. In the end, one group won by a close margin of 1. Woah.

The final game was dressing up an elderly to become Santa Claus. Wah..they were very sporting and creative as well..yah i agree with clarice..they don't look like Santa Claus..perharps a disco version bah...Poor Mr Paolo has to stand very still in a vie to balance the cup on his head which still drops at the end of the game anyway. When I watched him, I realized that as volunteers, we so often think that we are the ones who bring joy and laughter to our beneficiaries..but in fact the joy and laughter that they bring to us can be more than we can ever give. I think the mutual desire of bringing joy to one another makes this volunteer-beneficiary relationship sweet.

As usual, we got lixian to demo Macarena...in which the two elderly tried to follow. ( Mr Paolo having a difficult time here ) and we end off with sing-a-long session and pot luck. Though the christmas celebration is not very "christmas-y"...the warmth there is like that of Christmas...

Merry Christmas to all.....signing off Elicia